Lamp-support for pianos



. (No Model.)

W. ANDERSON. LAMP SUPPORT FOR PIANOS.

N0. 451,251. Patented Apr. 28, 1891.

I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IVILLIAM ANDERSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

LAMP-SUPPORT FOR PIANOS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,251, dated April 28, 1891. Application filed May 12, 1890. Serial No. 351,513. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM ANDERSON, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Chisuch a construction in the frame-work or case I of an organ or upright piano or in a panel forming a portion of such frame-work or case that a table or lamp-support may be readily secured by adjusting into proper position a leaf forming a portion of the frame-work or case, or of the panel inserted in and forming a part of the frame-work or case.

My invention consists of a panel adapted to be secured in and form a part of the framework or case of an organ or upright piano upon each or either side of the music-desk of the instrument, and such panel, embodying my invention, is formed of a frame, a door pivoted therein, and a fret-work panel having the ordinary textile backing thereto secured to the back of the frame, such pivoted door having a molding extending around the inner face thereof and adapted when swung outward and downward to constitute a table or lamp-support, upon which can be placed a lamp in suitable position to illuminate the key-board of the instrument and articles placed upon the music-desk thereof, the pivoted door also having, when desired, carving or other ornamentation upon the outer face thereof, and adapted when swung upward and into the frame in which it is pivoted to constitute a portion of the panel inserted, as hereinbefore stated, into and forming a part of the case of the instrument.

I have illustrated my invention by the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, in which Figure l is an elevation of an organ or upright piano case having placed therein in a manner to form a panel thereof the device embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a cross-section of the front of the instrument-case to which the device embodying my invention is attached, showing the device closed; Fig.3,a cross-section showing the device opened and in position to havea lamp or other article placed thereon; Fig. 4, a perspective of a pivot-hinge secured to and forming the support of that portion of the panel embodying my invent-ion which serves as atable or lampsupport when desired.

Like letters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

A is an instrument frame or case.

B is the music-desk of case A.

C C are panels embodying my invention.

D is a frame forming a portion of panel C.

D is a door pivoted in frame D, also forming a portion of panel C when closed.

(1 is a molding extending around door D.

E is a pivot-hinge, formed of leaf 6, which is rigidly secured to doorD, and leaf e,which is rigidly secured to the inner edge of the side bars of frame D. The leaves of pivotal hinge E turn upon pivot e which is rigidly secured in one of the leaves 6 e and turns freely in the other.

e isan extension of leaf 6 beyond pivot e and e is an extension or lug on leaf 6.

F is a frame secured to the back of frame D, and G is a fret-work panel attached to frame F.

H is a colored textile backing to fret-work panel G, secured thereon in the ordinary manner.

I is a flat spring serving the purpose of a friction-catch, adapted to hold door D in an upright or closed position in frame D.

J is the handle on door D by which the door is opened or swung outward and downward into the horizontal position, wherein it forms a lamp-support.

The door D, when closed into frame D, forms a panel of the case of the instrument, and when desired that face of the door D' appearing to view when so closed may be ornamented, as by carving. When this door D is in the horizontal position illustrated in Fig 3 of the drawings, its pivotal movement is determined and the horizontal position of such door maintained by the extension 6 on leaf 6 coming in contact with the extension or lug c on leaf 6 in substantially the manner illustrated in Fig. 4 of the drawings. \Vhen the door D is in the horizontal position wherein it forms the lamp-support, it is evident that such door can then form no part of the panel C, and fret-work panel G is provided and secured in the manner and position hereinbefore described to the back of the frame D, that a suitable panel appearance may at all times be maintained in panel 0.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to 'secu re by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a panel adapted to form a portion of the case of an organ or upright piano, a frame, a door pivotally secured therein and adapted to be closed into the frame or to be swung outward therefrom into a horizontal position, and a panel secured to the back of the frame and adapted to form a portion of the case of the instrument when the pivoted door is in a horizontal position, all substantially as described. I

2. A panel adapted to form a portion of the case of a musical instrument, consisting of a frame, a door pivoted. therein and adapted to be swung outward therefrom,a pivotal hinge,

one of the leaves thereof having-an extension thereon adapted to come in contact with a lug upon the other leaf thereof, thereby determining the pivotal movement of the hinge and maintaining the door in a horizontal position, forming a lamp-support, and a fret- Work panel secured to the back of the frame, such fret-work panel having a textile backing, substantially as described.

3, In a panel adapted to form a portion of the case of a musical instrument, a frame, a door pivoted therein, a pivotal hinge, one leaf thereof secured to the door and the other leaf thereof secured to the frame, an extension upon one of such leaves adapted to come in contact with a lug on the other of such leaves, and a panel secured to the back of the frame, whereby when the pivotal door is closed in the frame provided therefor such door, together with such frame, shall constitute a panel in the instrument-case, and when the pivotal door is. in a horizontal position such frame and the panel secured to the back thereof shall constitute the panel in the instrument-case, substantially as described.

, WILLIAM ANDERSON. Witnesses:

CHARLES T. BROWN,

FLORA L. BROWN. 

